aksdesign@bsky.social
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Form over function, that's my motto.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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goddammit please don't make me root for Calibri
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
goddammit please don't make me root for Calibri
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This is an aggressive soft power move at a time when America’s men are busy trying to kill our babies, deport our workers, and shoot down random fishermen overseas. Just be hot and make grilled cheese like normal people, I beg you
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is an aggressive soft power move at a time when America’s men are busy trying to kill our babies, deport our workers, and shoot down random fishermen overseas. Just be hot and make grilled cheese like normal people, I beg you
RIP Frank Gehry. I had the best 18 months living on the 48th floor of this work of art. #FrankGehry #8sprucestreet #NYbG #GehryBuilding
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
RIP Frank Gehry. I had the best 18 months living on the 48th floor of this work of art. #FrankGehry #8sprucestreet #NYbG #GehryBuilding
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Oh, that's where I know him from
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Oh, that's where I know him from
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JD in the White House tonight:
a man in a suit says i 'm the oldest boy
ALT: a man in a suit says i 'm the oldest boy
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
JD in the White House tonight:
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
Note "The" is not kerned correctly
(see perspective-corrected still for reference)
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
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There are a lot of arguments for why Mamdani won. I, a pundit, believe it was the typeface.
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
The bodega-influenced visual language of an outsider campaign.
www.curbed.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
There are a lot of arguments for why Mamdani won. I, a pundit, believe it was the typeface.
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
www.curbed.com/article/zohr...
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“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
“They were careless people, … they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made"
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
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That everything about the "2" here (the colour, the font, the fact that it's ever so slightly tilted) makes it look like a zany comedy sequel, is especially funny
September 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
That everything about the "2" here (the colour, the font, the fact that it's ever so slightly tilted) makes it look like a zany comedy sequel, is especially funny
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They took out the Cracker *and* the Barrel?!?!?!
August 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
They took out the Cracker *and* the Barrel?!?!?!
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If you love A Chorus Line or theater or New York or dancers or singers, take a break and watch this. The faces! The feelings! If you start sniffling at around the 4:30 mark, we're friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUIs...
July 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you love A Chorus Line or theater or New York or dancers or singers, take a break and watch this. The faces! The feelings! If you start sniffling at around the 4:30 mark, we're friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUIs...
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Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Logo Looked Nothing Like a Campaign Logo
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.
www.curbed.com
June 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign had a visual language like no other, drawing on hand-painted bodega signage and New York iconography in a completely fresh way.
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The Edge, New York
June 14, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The Edge, New York
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GPT-4o PROMPT: ISOMETRIC ADS
Create “{character or brand}” — full-body isometric 3D flat-cubist scene, centered in a surreal minimal environment reflecting the identity, vivid HDR colors, high kelvin lighting, 1:1 aspect ratio, bold logo below character with a short 3–4 word slogan
Create “{character or brand}” — full-body isometric 3D flat-cubist scene, centered in a surreal minimal environment reflecting the identity, vivid HDR colors, high kelvin lighting, 1:1 aspect ratio, bold logo below character with a short 3–4 word slogan
June 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
GPT-4o PROMPT: ISOMETRIC ADS
Create “{character or brand}” — full-body isometric 3D flat-cubist scene, centered in a surreal minimal environment reflecting the identity, vivid HDR colors, high kelvin lighting, 1:1 aspect ratio, bold logo below character with a short 3–4 word slogan
Create “{character or brand}” — full-body isometric 3D flat-cubist scene, centered in a surreal minimal environment reflecting the identity, vivid HDR colors, high kelvin lighting, 1:1 aspect ratio, bold logo below character with a short 3–4 word slogan
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Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize
June 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize
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Read about Gorton, an incredible story about a font that went into space, then to the Moon, as key legends on Apollo’s on-board computer.
A font that we have all seen since 135 years, but so far, no one knows it.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
A font that we have all seen since 135 years, but so far, no one knows it.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
June 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Read about Gorton, an incredible story about a font that went into space, then to the Moon, as key legends on Apollo’s on-board computer.
A font that we have all seen since 135 years, but so far, no one knows it.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
A font that we have all seen since 135 years, but so far, no one knows it.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
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Wild news about airing “Good Night, and Good Luck” live the night before it closes — *and* I absolutely love that this release uses the word penultimate, and that no one dumbed that down.
May 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Wild news about airing “Good Night, and Good Luck” live the night before it closes — *and* I absolutely love that this release uses the word penultimate, and that no one dumbed that down.